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We do leave the last few minutes of this, take you live now to the u. S. Capitol. Good afternoon, everyone. As you know, we had a lunch with the president. He did q a with our members for about an hour. Underscored the importance of accomplishing for the American People the First Comprehensive tax reform in 31 years which we fully intend to accomplish in the next few days. The Budget Committee will be meeting at 2 30 to take a step that is required to move the process forward, and were optimistic that step will be taken. Im going to have to run down to the white house for a meeting that i gather senator schumer and leader pelosi are not coming to, so i will not be here very long. But in order to allow for a couple of questions, ill be happy to throw it open just for a minute, and then im going to call on senator hatch if hes here right behind you. Yeah. Nancy . Leader mcconnell, how do you address all of the concerns that some of these gop holdouts have simultaneously without making th
Mr. President , it is time to stop tweeting and start leading. There are serious questions that must be answered and many things that must be done. Democrats and republicans on the hill have come together on government funding for. In april, speaker ryan, leader mcconnell, leader pelosi and i worked together from the government and avoid shutdown in the four of us have worked together for and we, democrats, are ready to do it again. If President Trump doesnt want to get involved in this and President Trump says hes not interested in cutting a deal then we suggest that speaker ryan, leader mcconnell, leader pelosi and i sit down and we can come up with a good deal on her own. That is what was done before and that is what can be done again. As i said, there are serious issues and from us. We dont have time to waste and games to play. We need to from the military. We need to protect millions of american pensions, funded Scientific Research and Student Loans but we need to rebuild in texas
Reporters about why he decided not to attend the meeting at the white house with President Trump will also hear from the Senate Democratic whip dick durbin. Sen. Schumer good afternoon, i am proud to be joined by my colleagues here this afternoon. With just three and a half short weeks to go before christmas, that to do list in washington is long and complicated. Deal toto reach increase in defense spending as well as programs which the middle class relies on for jobs. We need to write an appropriations bill, and we need to extend funding for Community Health standards. Chi and protect dreamers. In order to get all of this done in the next few short weeks, all parties need to engage in good faith negotiations to reach an agreement. That is what we hoped would happen at todays white house meeting. Unfortunately, the president had other ideas. Twe this morning, the president et made sure that todays meeting was nothing but a photo op. These issues are far too serious for these kind of ga
What is next for the president and republican party, were asking former advisor to president george w. Bush, mr. Karl rove. Liberal media cant get over this whole russia collusion story. It has been a year. We still have no evidence. You wouldnt know that talking to liberal media, Gregg Jarrett from the very start. He has real intel on what is happening right now. Lets go to blake burman. Go to President Trump es on first legislative win. Hi, blake. Reporter President Trump starting his christmas break here and the president signing this tax bill into law. He said by doing so, before christmas, that indeed is promise kept. The president c also continued o tout number of companies that come forward, because of this tax bill, they will start to reward their employees, latest of which today, could from pnc and sinclair broadcasting, giving 1000dollar bonuses to their employees. Add them all up, trish, that adds up to 55,000 workers just between those two companies alone. Inside the oval,